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50 Dinars 1st Oil Shipment
| Issuer | Central Bank of Kuwait |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 50 Dinars |
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| Obverse script | Arabic/Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | State of Kuwait دولة الكويت 50th Anniversary of Exporting 1st Oil Shipment |
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Kuwait resumed oil exports in late 1991 after Iraqi forces, retreating from the seven-month occupation, set fire to over 600 Kuwaiti oil wells — an act of deliberate sabotage that took nearly nine months and international firefighting crews to extinguish. This coin commemorates the first post-liberation oil shipment, a moment that carried obvious economic urgency for a country whose entire reconstruction depended on restoring petroleum revenue. The five-year gap between that event and this 1996 striking reflects the extended timeline of Kuwait's infrastructure recovery rather than any ceremonial delay.